Graduate Excellence Program
The Graduate Excellence Program is a 12-month program that enables you to build on your university studies and launch your career in a supportive environment.
2024 Graduate Excellence Program
Applications for our 2024 Graduate Excellence Program will open in August 2023.
Other entry level roles (classified as PO2 and AO3) are advertised throughout the year on the Queensland Government Smart Jobs and Careers page.
The Graduate Excellence Program is a structured leadership development program that offers challenging and rewarding opportunities with real responsibility and accountability. It includes a mix of on-the-job experience and formal training workshops to complement and expand on what you are learning in your daily work and assist you in your transition from study to full-time employment.
In addition to the formal learning and development, you will receive coaching and mentoring from a robust support network of leaders and graduate alumni.
Benefits
- A competitive salary that increases after 12 months, and includes up to 12.75% employer superannuation contributions plus leave loading
- Generous leave provisions, including up to 5 weeks paid recreation leave (depending on location), 10 days sick leave and flex days
- Exclusive graduate learning and development opportunities
- Work-life balance with a 36.25 hour working week.
- Flexible work such as work from home opportunities, work from distributed work centres (different to your primary workplace), compressed hours, different start/finish times, part-time hours and flexitime.
- A supportive, inclusive, and respectful departmental culture where you can bring your true self to work
- Discounted fitness membership programs, free employee assistance program, and other health and wellbeing initiatives
- Study and research assistance schemes to help you with further study
Degrees we recruit
We recruit graduates from a range of degrees including (but not limited to):
- Business
- Communications
- Data analytics/science
- Economics
- Engineering (particularly mining, mechanical and petroleum)
- Environmental science
- Environmental management
- Geology
- Geoscience
- Information technology
- Law
- Policy
- Property
- Surveying
- Spatial information/technology
Eligibility
To be eligible for the 2024 Graduate Excellence Program you must:
- have completed at least an Australian Qualifications Framework Level 7 qualification (a Bachelor degree), or higher
- have completed your degree between 1 January 2022 and the commencement of the program in February 2024
- be an Australian citizen, New Zealand citizen or permanent resident and have permission, under Commonwealth law, to work in Australia
- pass a criminal history and employment check (these will be completed as part of the recruitment process).
Contact the friendly Recruitment team via RecruitmentHR@resources.qld.gov.au if you have any questions.
Meet some of our 2023 graduates
Last reviewed: 03 June 2023